Internationally acclaimed baroque dancers Thomas
Baird and Paige Whitley-Bauguess
began working together as a duo eleven years ago. Their artistic
collaborations have excited and educated audiences in the US,
Canada, and Japan, receiving critical acclaim, as well as repeat
invitations to work with some of the finest Baroque music groups
in the world. Last year, they reconstructed, directed and danced
in the professional premiere of Philador's Le Mariage de la
Gross Cathos in Tokyo. Last winter, they choreographed Purcell's
Dido and Aeneas and choreographed and performed in The
Fairy Queen for the Dunbar Early Music Festival at Northwestern
University. Most recently, they choreographed and performed in
John Blow's Venus and Adonis at East Carolina University,
and reconstructed and choreographed Danzas y Bailes from
17th century Spanish dance sources for exclusive performances
with Chatham Baroque.

This is the story of 18th-century sailors
on-board a seafaring vessel who encounter a terrible tempest
and are whirled into the tragic, mythological story of Acis and
Galatea, features dances and music from two French operas: Jean-Baptiste
Lully's Acis et Galatée (1686) and Marin Marais'
Alcyone (1706).